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Mother-and-baby home floral tributes in Bessborough, Cork

Mother-and-baby home burial submissions deadline nears

This week is the deadline for submissions to the Oireachtas committee that will scrutinise proposed legislation allowing excavations, exhumations and re-interment of remains at former mother-and-baby home institutions.

Ireland • 21 Feb 21

The graveyard at the Bessborough Centre in Blackrock, Cork, formerly Bessborough House mother and baby home (Image: Rolling News)

IASW apologises over Mother and Baby home failings

The Association representing Social Workers has apologised unreservedly for the "pain and distress" caused by failings of the profession highlighted in the Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.

Ireland • 15 Feb 21

Commission submits mother-and-baby home report

The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has submitted its final report to the Minister for Children.

Ireland • 30 Oct 20

The bill on Mother and Baby Homes has by-passed pre-legislative scrutiny

Concerns raised over Mother and Baby Homes bill

A number of Senators say they have been inundated with emails voicing concerns about a bill on Mother and Baby Homes, which has by-passed pre-legislative scrutiny.

Politics • 14 Oct 20

The records include databases and related information on women and children in the main mother and baby homes

Bill to safeguard records from mother and baby homes

The Government has approved the text of a Bill which it says will safeguard and protect records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.

Ireland • 06 Oct 20

The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is due to submit its final report on 30 October

Cabinet to get memo over mother-and-baby-homes inquiry

The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O'Gorman is to introduce legislation to safeguard information collected by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission.

Politics • 15 Sep 20

The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes says Covid-19 has delayed its work

Further extension to mother-and-baby homes inquiry

The Government has agreed to a request from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes for a further extension to the publication of its final report.

Ireland • 12 Jun 20

Independent TD Clare Daly was speaking in the Dáil today

Motion calling for investigation into illegal adoptions

Independent TD Clare Daly has tabled a Dáil motion calling on the Government to establish an inquiry into the falsification of documents regarding adoptions and forced adoptions.

Politics • 15 May 19

Katherine Zappone published the report this morning

People around Tuam 'must know more' about burials

A new report has said there must be people in the area surrounding Tuam in Co Galway who know more about the burial arrangements of former residents of the former maternity institution there who have not come forward.

Ireland • 17 Apr 19

Two significant reports relating to Ireland's main mother-and-baby homes are due to be brought to Cabinet

Cabinet to consider mother-and-baby homes reports

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone is expected to bring two significant reports to Cabinet this morning.

Politics • 16 Apr 19

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation was set up after allegations about the deaths of 800 babies in Tuam over a number of decades

Zappone receives report over mother and baby home site

The report of the Expert Technical Group dealing with the site of Tuam's former mother and baby home has been delivered to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone.

Ireland • 13 Apr 18

Archbishop Michael Neary said the findings from the Commission of Investigation were a matter of huge public concern

Archbishop of Tuam 'horrified' by discovery of remains

The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam said he is horrified by the confirmation that significant quantities of human remains were buried on the site of a former mother and baby home in the town.

News • 05 Mar 17

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation